Prologue : into the wild -- Introduction : impermanence -- People matter -- The circle of life -- Good billionaires, bad billionaires -- Perils of the state -- The geographic sweet spot -- Factories first -- The price of onions -- Cheap is good -- The kiss of debt -- The hype watch -- The good,...

The aim of this study was provide answers to two research questions. While the first one is concerned with the causes of the remarkable macroeconomic resilience of the Nordic EU-countries since the mid-1990s, the second one is related to the sustainability of a high degree of government activity...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Received Wisdom on Poverty, Inequality, and Growth -- Chapter 1 Overview: New Results on Poverty, Inequality, and the Growth in the Era of Globalization -- The Issues -- The Framework and the Data -- A Bird's Eye View -- A More...